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[Sergius]

After they start producing the heavy armored biters I've found that nearly all my ammo and weapon types have a negligible effect on them. Even rockets take a dozen or so hits to kill them.

[n9103]

Distractor capsules are unlimited. Defender capsules are the MG followers.

But yes, spamming distractors is particularly effective. Even more so when you're doing it from a car in relatively open ground.
Tossing two of them on a Big worm is usually enough to take it down.

Once you can get Destroyer capsules, you can use half as many, and stick to just walking around, as the destroyers are pretty good at taking down even big biters.

[McDonald]

Just found out, you can fire weapons from a car. With a flamethrower it looks incredibly cool. (Or hot. Get it? Fire? Hot? I'm sorry.)

[Dutchling]

I downloaded and installed the new version.



Help? This is the entire game for some reason.

edit: fixed it by setting fullscreen to false in the config and then pressing WIN+D twice quickly. Changing to fullscreen in-game doesn't work properly and changing it back crashes the game.

[n9103]

go post that and the logs over on the Factorio bugs subforum: http://www.factorioforums.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=7

[LoSboccacc]

Also try windows key + up arrow that would try and maximize the window

[Leonon]

On the topic of biter nests, I deal with them using loads and loads of laser turrets.

Step 1: String out big electric poles until you're closeish but still far enough that they are definitely not going to aggro.
Step 2: Put down a small/mid pole and fill its area with turrets.
Step 3: Go towards the spawners until you draw aggro to see the aggro range then run back to my turrets
Step 4: Put down small/mid poles until the poles are just outside of aggro range and fill their area with turrets
Step 5: Remove the turret group farthest from the front
Step 6: Put down a new pole a little closer to the spawners and fill its area with turrets

Then just keep doing step 6 until you run out of turrets and then do step 5 and 6 until everything is dead. 10 active laser turrets can usually handle clearing a spawner, so 15 can leapfrog one pretty easily. For more spawners just use more turrets.

[SharpKris]

i find poison capsules to be much more efficient the turrets

[LoSboccacc]

Turret strategy doesn't work well for me in late game when the buters are mainly of the huge variety, hit and runs with the combat knife on their nest works well enough.

[jocan2003]

Turret strategy doesn't work well for me in late game when the buters are mainly of the huge variety, hit and runs with the combat knife on their nest works well enough.

Same here with dytech mod, with all module of that mod we get some crazy ass biters... some can tank over 5k HP and are armored like hell... one alone can soak up about 20ish standard laser turret upgraded to 3 on speed and damage boost for over 10sec more or less... good thing they are soo slow... simple put a layer or 2 of express belt and he wont be able to reach the wall... still thats a massive strain on the power lines if you are green and dont have enough capacitor. Can easily kill your power supply if a few of them point their nose and you dont have a good power system.

[LoSboccacc]

Use a train to run them over

[werty892]

This finally got the multiplayer update! NOW THERE IS MP GUYS. WHO'S HOSTING A SERVER???

[Aklyon]

This finally got the multiplayer update! NOW THERE IS MP GUYS. WHO'S HOSTING A SERVER???

How buggy is it,though?

[tryrar]

About to find out! I'm downloading the alpha 11.1 right now

[n9103]

I'm available for hosting MP.
Kinda picky on who I'll let in, due to the instability of MP for the time being.
Just come on into my TeamSpeak and we'll talk.